Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness?
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No, you got it. It's not about prohibiting profit, it's about prohibiting the exclusive ability to profit.
Think of generic medicines (in the US) versus brand equivalents and how vast their cost difference is.
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Is Betteridges Law dead?
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PUT ON THE WIG DEGENERATE
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Until you're ready for your old man era, presumably.
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It's also only preventative, seems like this is more reversal.
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I had postcard white-guy Jesus hair, hanging to the middle of my back, straight and reddish blond. A beard too. I went bald in my mid-40s and now what's left around the fringes is white. People who see pictures of me from back in the day don't recognize me.
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It works, but not all that well. The hair that comes back tends to be really thin.
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Which is reasonable in principle, but when they sell the exclusivity, they're and to put that money back into their research expenses.
I'm okay with public money going to funding research projects that become private profit for a limited time. I'm a capitalist system, which is what we're operating in, this seems to be the most effective. Government partially funds otherwise unprofitable R&D, companies make the product, and ordinary people are able to buy it at reasonable prices, and once exclusivity ends, anyone can make it.
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Better watch out, the king of the US government is done with all the queers and chronically ill the baldies are next.
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Lack of maintenance? Don't you have to shave your head regularly?
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Hey, I'm glad you can pull it off! I would look really weird with a shaved head. I would think there's still maintenance involved though. How often do you have to shave it?
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It also impacts libido
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Sure, but no need for combs, hair product, trips to the barber... I shave my face in the shower, and just keep going.
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That would be great, except in the US, that exclusivity can last for decades, which means entire generations will come and go before it becomes public.
In a better-regulated system where consumers are put before corporate interests, it could work, but the US hasn't been that for a long time.
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I don’t intend to be dead in the bext 50 years.
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It’s not just cosmetic. Hair keeps the heat from escaping the head so quickly and, more importantly, it helps keep the head from getting sunburned and skin cancer.
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When my head is freezing and I don’t have a hat handy I’m pretty sure that’s not a cosmetic issue.
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I’m with you but I would like the option honestly since I’ve been bald for over 30 years. Never having a bad hair day and razors being cheaper than haircuts are definitely a plus. But hitting your head on anything is almost always some sort of gash.
But damn if I don’t have dreams sometimes of running my fingers through my hair.
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I think people forget that not all populations benifit from more hair
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They didn't and this doesn't work as intended. They did however create a company to cash in on desperate people.
